Your post advocates a
(X) collective bargaining ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to labor relations at Target. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) No one wants to pay expensive union dues
( ) Large corporations and their lawyers have weakened successor rights and runaway shop doctrine to the point that they are meaningless
(X) If a union vote passes, the company will either close the store, or change corporation names and refer to it as a "real estate transaction"
( ) There is no effective recourse against the company bargaining in bad faith and refusing to negotiate a contract
( ) Team members can't afford long strikes
( ) The company can afford to tie up legal disputes in the courts indefinitely
( ) At-will employment laws allow companies to target and fire union organizers on thin pretenses
( ) Our guests will not respect picket lines
( ) The labor contract will work for two weeks, then we will be stuck with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from transient workers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many team members cannot afford to lose pay or alienate potential employers
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of coordination among unions, sometimes even at cross-purposes (e.g., Target's buildings are constructed by members of the IBEW, IW, and SPU, but Target's anti-union training videos have actors who are all members of SAG-AFTRA)
(X) Government and industry being too cozy and revolving-door (Target's top union-busting lawyer previously worked at the NLRB)
( ) Having to organize one store at a time
( ) Most work is easily done by scab replacements
(X) Avocado-toast-eating snowflake millenials are not up to the long hard slog that Depression-era workers went through to organize industries
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Increased labor costs passed on to guests through higher prices
( ) Inability to compete with other businesses that are not unionized and have lower labor costs
( ) Unpopularity of weird new legislation
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of guest service
( ) Huge existing financial investment in the status quo
( ) Eternal arms race involved in the collective bargaining process
( ) Extreme profitability of union-free businesses
( ) Legally illiterate and morally indifferent politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with retailers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of labor organizers
( ) Labor costs that are unaffected by striking
( ) Decreasing cost-to-benefit ratios of worker-replacing automation from technological advances
( ) Current hours, pay, and benefits could be a ceiling, and not a floor, in any potential contract negotiations
(X) The UFCW has failed many times before to organize Target and has essentially given up
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Unionizing may just be trading one boss for two
( ) Unions are easy targets for racketeering and corrupt influences (i.e., the mob)
(X) Model labor contracts intended for the hyperspecialization of roles in mass production a-la Frederick Winslow Taylor are a poor fit for the modern technological and service-oriented workplace
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) The day to day details of how to seek and work jobs should not be the subject of flawed legislation
( ) Strikes suck
( ) We should be able to talk about a free market and right-to-work without being censored
( ) Labor activism should not involve fraud
( ) Labor activism should not involve sabotage of private property
( ) Labor activism must work if phased in gradually
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your union?
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Firing them that way is not slow and painful enough
( ) German-style trade unions require highly structured multi-track secondary education and apprenticeship programs
(X) Socialism failed in Venezuela
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, dummy! I'm going to find out where you work and complain to your manager.